Defining Your Journey to Better End-User Computing

PC-based computing is grinding to a halt, as IT organizations struggle with outdated processes and tools that satisfy neither users nor business owners. Mobile devices, new collaboration tools and cloud-based applications are challenging current approaches and showing the promise of better alternatives.

• Learn how you can navigate from the PC-based age to this new era of user diversity, productivity and collaboration
• Plan to make your end-user computing journey at a pace that fits with your availability of budget and resources
• Evolve your end-user computing environment without compromising data security or the function of the applications your users depend on

Brian Gammage is VMware’s chief market technologist. He works closely with customers to define the journey to a modern end-user computing model that securely delivers access to applications and data from any device, wherever and whenever the user needs it.

With more than 25 years IT sector experience, the former Gartner fellow is widely regarded as one of the most influential global analysts in the desktop virtualization market. As chief market technologist at VMware, Brian is focused on developing the company’s vision for end-user centric IT, addressing the operational and security challenges of an increasingly mobile workforce as well as the burgeoning diversity of data, applications and devices now entering the workplace.

Brian is based in the UK but his remit is as a global thought leader. Prior to his role at Gartner, Brian worked at HP, Olivetti Systems and Acorn Computers.

Watch this EMC Tech Talk for a live discussion about how you can automate provisioning of the underlying physical infrastructure on VCE Vblock Systems with ViPR Controller. Delays in rolling out a new business service can negatively impact your ability to generate new revenue.

Integrate with VMware plug-ins and packs to create your own “as-a-service” offering. Easily and quickly respond to dynamic business needs with infrastructure lifecycle management.

Flash storage has the power to transform the way we do business, enabling organizations to accelerate IT, deliver a richer user experience, and gain real-time insights into their operations. But until now flash storage solutions have forced you to compromise on price, performance, or features. Some are super fast, but that speed comes with a steep price tag. Others are economical, but they lack enterprise-grade capabilities.

Join Chris Tsilipounidakis as he discusses the latest advancements in flash technology and how Tegile is disrupting the industry by engineering intelligent flash arrays that deliver high performance and enterprise capabilities at one-third the cost traditional arrays. Learn how you can accelerate your business, maximize uptime, and achieve IT efficiencies with Tegile flash storage.

A seemingly never-ending string of large scale data breaches across all sectors of the economy and government have had devastating affects on countless individuals — and irreparably damaged organizations of all kinds. It’s been proven that privileged users, and the accounts and credentials they use, are a crucial element in conducting a successful attack. But it’s possible to protect those users and stop data breaches in their tracks.

In this webcast, we’ll explain how Xsuite and privileged identity management can stop attackers at multiple points in the data breach lifecycle, preventing damage and disruption. Join us to learn:

- Who are privileged users and why are they important?
- How do attackers exploit privileged users and their credentials to carry out breaches?
- See a hands-on demonstration of Xsuite and how it can manage, control, and protect privileged users and credentials and your business assets.

Register now to join us live at 1:00 pm ET Thursday, July 30, 2015 or on demand afterwards.

See how HP ALM software was deployed to support Agile development and test efforts in a private secure cloud environment for government agencies. Learn about their need and our resulting solution. Find out how HP ALM software is provisioned in a virtual data center cloud development and test environment. See how our on-demand offering, with flexible pricing, allows agencies to leverage their investment in HP Software, greatly increasing ROI and reducing risk.

See how HP ALM software was deployed to support Agile development and test efforts in a private secure cloud environment for government agencies. Learn about their need and our resulting solution. Find out how HP ALM software is provisioned in a virtual data center cloud development and test environment. See how our on-demand offering, with flexible pricing, allows agencies to leverage their investment in HP Software, greatly increasing ROI and reducing risk.

OpenShift Commons Briefings allow you to have access to trainings you might have missed on DevOps, operations and application development. Join this presentation for a deeper look into scheduling pods for high availability.

Data creation, storage costs and data retention requirements are escalating while business users demand instant access to all data all the time. How can companies meet these business requirements while controlling costs? In this webinar we will show you how to build a strategy to meet these critical demands while delivering a strong ROI for your data storage investments.

This webinar will examine how innovations being pioneered in the telco sector, namely SDN (Software Defined Networking) and NFV (Network Function Virtualization) can be extended and applied to the enterprise data center, as part of their SDDC strategies - Software Defined Data Center.

Join Dr David Soldani, VP Huawei European Research Centre, as he introduces the main ICT challenges and opportunities in EU, 5G vision and main research and innovation initiatives ongoing, globally.

He will describe a multitenant network and services vision and the most important 5G wireless, wireline and media enabling technologies, leveraging emerging technologies such as Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), High Performance (HPC) and Mobile Edge Computing (MEC). With a special focus given to 5G as the nervous system of the Silver Economy, looking at a better age friendly environment (housing), which can help people live longer, independently and thus reduce costs of long term care. In this context, 5G will be an integral part of the overall solution to the ambient (housing) assisted living concept, where service robots, mobiles, holographic rendering, cars, etc. could be connected using 5G communication technologies. Conclusions will be drawn on the main standardization activities and roadmap towards the IMT for 2020 and beyond.

What's Docker? Why is it popular? What are containers? Why and how are they going to drastically improve how we build, ship, and run applications? How to get started with Docker and containers, and leverage them to achieve faster, safer deployments for software stacks big and small?

In this presentation, Jerome Petazzoni wil answer all those questions (and a few more) to give you a clear overview of Docker and containers, as well as a quick bootstrap to get started with this technology.

Digital transformation is leading organizations to adopt cloud, SDN, converged infrastructure and containers. This IT transformation has opened the door to new threats and cyber attacks. Security needs to be built into the fabric through a distributed system that enables visibility and control to ensure comprehensive protection of virtualized and cloud assets.

Join this webinar to find out:
- What are the top enterprise trends in data center transformation – regarding leveraging cloud, SDN, converged infrastructure and containers?
- What are the current technology gaps in today’s security and visibility solutions? Why are they needed?
- What is the business impact of these gaps?

Learn how a distributed systems approach to data center visibility is the first step to greater security and the second is about control or the ability to take action. Hear about real-world customer use cases leveraging this approach that solve these challenging security issues.

When you take rendering horsepower to the cloud with our accelerated, platform-as-a-service virtual desktop infrastructure, the possibilities are endless. And each one involves seamless performance, lower capital costs, rapid on-boarding, and reliable security—with lightning-fast storage, optimized networking, and cutting-edge rendering. Discover how to enable even the most graphically intense tasks from anywhere in this webcast.

Join Bob Plumridge, SNIA Europe Chairman, as he presents a brief overview of the solid state technologies which are being integrated into Enterprise Storage Systems today, including technologies, benefits, and price/performance.

He will then describe where they fit into typical Enterprise Storage architectures today, with descriptions of specific use cases.

Leaping to Software Defined Storage? Make Sure You Can Answer These Questions:

1. Is Software Defined Storage Right For You?
2. What are the Hardware Requirements For Software Defined Storage?
3. How do you Transition To Software Defined Storage?

Join George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland and Gavin Mclaughlin, VP of Strategy and Communication with X-IO for this instructive webinar. In this webinar, you will learn the answers to the three key questions, you should ask when considering a software-defined storage strategy.

All Attendees to this webinar will receive an advanced copy of Storage Switzerland's Latest White Paper, "The Hardware Requirements of Software Defined Storage".

45% of businesses surveyed said that they had experienced a data loss in 2014. Downtime can come from any direction, in any form, at any time. Astonishingly, three-quarters of IT professionals say that they have never calculated the hourly cost of downtime.

Join Mark Scanlon as he explores how you can reduce the impact of downtime on your business to near zero, whilst making it easier for you to manage your systems.

The CIO is faced with reconciling the, apparently, irreconcilable. How does he build a cost effective technology platform that provides business agility, and manages risk?

In this session, Steve O’Donnell explains the critical success factors in achieving that desired outcome, the considered compromises, the strategies and tactical approaches that the CIO will need to adopt to deliver business benefits and keep his stakeholders onside. He will look at the different types of application and how they need to be managed and hosted. Where do we build, where do we buy and where is configuration the right answer? How do we choose between in-house infrastructure, managed cloud services and engineered systems?

Join Stephen for a structured approach to providing a cohesive strategy for IT investment that makes sense, and optimises business outcomes whilst being simple enough to gain business stakeholder buy in and approval.

IT spend has become one of the largest budget line items in companies today. IT organizations worldwide spent over $4 trillion dollars in 2013 alone. Despite the growth in IT spend, many IT organizations do not have the capability to clearly and easily articulate where that spend is going, how it correlates to the services they are delivering or what value the business is realizing from the services.

In order to stay competitive, businesses are seeking ways to optimize and align future IT investment decisions with the strategic direction of the company. By making all of the costs of running IT transparent, IT can change the way business units consume IT resources, drive down total enterprise IT costs and focus on IT spending that delivers real business value.

Join Jerry Wertelecky as he discusses:

• Facilitate collaboration between IT and Finance to increase visibility into the costs, utilization and operations of all IT Services

• Leverage a deep understanding of what drives IT costs and performance to improve scenario planning capabilities and make better IT decisions

• Provide IT cost and consumption data to business owners in the form of a “Bill of IT” to more effectively communicate the value of IT to the business.

Data unavailability results in lost revenue, customers or business failure. Of the companies experiencing disasters, 43 percent never reopen and 29 percent close within two years.

Join Gianluca Mariani and other members of the SNIA Italy committee as they discuss the best disaster recovery replication strategies, focusing on defining SLAs, choosing the right architecture, choosing the ingredients, and how cloud can play a part in DR.

Ensuring Business continuity and managing risks is becoming more and more crucial for companies heavily relying on technical infrastructure to run their business such as CRM, ERP, CMS, accounting, big data and more.

Todays's economy cannot be conceived without the use of such systems, more and more connected and presumably accessible from everywhere.

Data is now the key asset of any company, and needs to be protected the same way as everyone protects their assets.

But the reality is far from this. So many companies are "saving" money by using non-redundant infrastructures, networks or servers, and often have to experience the worst scenario to start digging into Disaster Recovery, but it's already too late.

So join Eric Sansonny as he looks at Disaster Recovery as a Service and Cloud Backups to see if the solution lies there.

The vast majority of applications today are under protected – or completely unprotected – making enterprises vulnerable to data loss or downtime during disasters. Legacy data protection and DR solutions, while still relevant to certain classes of workloads, have failed to adapt to the needs of modern virtualized applications and infrastructure.

Join Wim Vandebroeck as he explains how to use local, remote, and cloud-based backups to achieve high-levels of availability and resiliency in the event of component failure, node failure, rack failure, or an entire datacenter outage.

The new Microsoft Windows 10 platform is an exciting step forward from both a functionality and a security perspective. Senior Product Marketing Manager, Stephen Rose covers the new features of this operating system and what they mean to you as a way of adding additional security to your organization.

Many organizations have complex BC/DR plans consisting of several products, requiring multiple people to be present to execute the recovery, should disaster strike. This was the case at Long Term Care Group. They were using an orchestration tool with storage-based replication. Executing a DR test was becoming more and more difficult and confidence in their plan was fading.

Zerto Virtual Replication provides continuous block-level replication and fully automated and orchestrated failover, recovery, failback and DR testing. Mike Gelhar, Systems Engineer at Long Term Care Group knew they had found the solution they needed to deliver robust BC/DR while greatly reducing risk.

- Reduce risk with an automated solution that anyone can execute
- DR Testing ensures recovery through reports and provides the opportunity to make adjustments in the plan
- Maximize the investment with a solution that can simplify migrations and maintenance of the environment
- Installation is complete in one hour with no configuration changes so the carefully architected production environment is not changed, further reducing risk

Hyperconverged infrastructure provides a vastly simpler and more economical alternative to legacy datacenter architectures built with separate servers, storage and network resources. Many hyperconverged solutions are based on the same technologies powering the world’s largest web-scale datacenters, and are now finding their way into mainstream enterprises. Join an industry veteran discuss where hyperconverged infrastructure belongs, and how it fits into your datacenter strategy.

Attendees will learn:

· The fundamentals of hyperconverged technologies
· What applications and workloads are best suited for these platforms
· Things to consider when selecting a hyperconverged solution for your organization

The Open Networking Foundation (ONF), a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating the adoption of open Software-Defined Networking (SDN), has released Atrium, an open SDN software distribution designed to help the networking industry as a whole more easily adopt open SDN by fostering an open ecosystem of interoperable applications, controllers, and hardware-based OpenFlow switches. This webinar will examine the needs that drove the creation of Project Atrium, its objectives, elements, how it works and how it will evolve as SDN becomes more broadly deployed in brownfield networks.

Hyperconverged technology is a term used to describe what some
vendors are calling 'infrastructure in a box' or 'all-in-one solution.' Virtualization and storage
administrators understand that it can make sense to couple virtualized
storage with a virtualized server instance in some cases to create a
virtualized infrastructure.
However, there are several issues to consider before plunging into a hyperconverged deployment.

This session will discuss the applications benefiting from a hyper converged solution and how it fits into your data center.

There are many variations and offering of Hyper-Converged systems as more vendors seek to capitalize on successes. This presentation will discuss differentiating elements for Hyper-Converged systems and review the different offerings covered in Evaluator Series Research.

Attendees of this presentation will take away a comprehensive understanding of products on the market and decision criteria to consider when making a purchase.

What are Hyper-converged systems and how do they compare to alternatives? We provide an overview of the applications and environments best suited to Hyper-converged products, and discuss aspects of consideration when evaluating products.

Virtualization is no longer a passing trend. Organization deploying it in their servers, desktops, storage and networks are experiencing increased performance and decreased costs, when implemented and managed properly. Join this channel to hear leading experts discuss this maturing technology and how you can create your own software-defined data center.